Art Quotes by George Stillman Hillard

George Stillman Hillard

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Art

Mind

Temptation

George Stillman Hillard

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

Art

Return

Rome

George Stillman Hillard

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

Art

Men

Struggle

George Stillman Hillard

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Art

Feels

Persons

George Stillman Hillard

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Art

Military

War

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Appreciate

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Arms

Art

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Binding

Character

Christian

Companion

Dark

Departed

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Expression

Eye

Feels

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Flower

Force

Forgiving

Friends

Gentleman

Golden

Greatness

Hands

Hatred

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Hope

Inevitable

Law

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May

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Opportunity

People

Persons

Politician

Politics

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Redeeming

Reflection

Return

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Rooms

Roots

Ruins

Running

Selfish

Shadow

Sloth

Soul

Statesmen

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Sunset

Taste

Temptation

Too Much

Unhappy

War

Weakness

Weed

Wise

Art Quotes by George Stillman Hillard

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

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